Day 287: The Gratitude of Children (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Gratitude is the proper response of children toward their parents. Out of this gratitude comes respect. When we are children at home, this respect includes “true docility and obedience.” Fr. Mike emphasizes respect for parents doesn’t expire when we leave home as adults. Grown children are responsible for caring for and supporting their parents in their old age. As Fr. Mike stresses, this can be the simple but often overlooked phone call to mom or dad. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2214-2220.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:13.3 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.3 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering |
| 0:21.3 | our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 287. We are reading paragraphs 2214 to 2220, which is a fun number. I don't know why, but it's fun. 2-2-0. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:40.4 | Church. You can also download the always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, |
| 0:40.7 | but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:56.1 | You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates. Daily notifications today. day 287, we're continuing to talk about the Fourth Commandment and the ways in which the family is not only just essential, but how do we live in the family? And so tomorrow we'll talk about |
| 1:00.8 | the duties of parents toward their children, but today we're talking paragraph 20 to 14 to 2220 |
| 1:06.4 | about the duties of children. We said this many times. We will continue to say it. We belong to each other. |
| 1:12.3 | And in almost, in very rare exceptions, the most critical place, the original place where we belong to each other is in the family. |
| 1:21.1 | And so every child has a mom and a dad somewhere. And so what are the duties of children to their parents, particularly when it |
| 1:28.3 | comes to this Fourth Commandment? We're looking at that today, and it's just really remarkable |
| 1:32.0 | because it's not just about children to their parents, but also grown children, adult children, |
| 1:37.2 | to their parents. What do we talk about when we're talking about that? What do we need to pay attention to |
| 1:41.8 | when we're paying attention to that? So as we launch into paragraphs 2214 to 2220, let us call upon the Lord, our father. |
| 1:49.4 | And as his beloved children, his adopted, beloved children, we cry out to him as we pray, Father in heaven, thank you. |
| 1:56.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:56.9 | In the name of your son, Jesus Christ, receive our thanks, receive our praise. |
| 1:59.9 | May you be glorified now and always. Lord God, may you be known. May your fatherhood be known. May your fatherhood be |
| 2:06.8 | realized in the lives of every single person you've created and redeemed. Lord God, we ask that every |
| 2:11.5 | person is baptized. We ask that every person comes to know you and come to know your love through Jesus Christ |
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